Think of how much you enjoy browsing through the pictures in your favorite catalogs, spending a day at the outlet stores, or whiling away an hour or two at a Costco or Sam's Club warehouse. Now consider all the offerings of every store, merchant, or collective. Remember, you are shopping in the warehouse of the universe. The promise of the law is that if you can imagine and desire something clearly enough, using high levels of creative energy, you can swiftly attract it.

Perhaps you already have something in mind to bring into your life experience. The following is an example of how one young woman saw what she wanted and used six steps to deliberately work with the Law of Attraction. Lupe had grown up poor in Puerto Rico and found work in New York. While she dreamed of having many things, mostly basic necessities, she also longed to have a diamond-studded watch like one she'd seen an actress wear in a movie.

Lupe had little discretionary income, but on the streets of New York almost anything could be had and the price was always negotiable. She soon discovered that there were many fake brand-name items, including watches, from which to choose. Separated from her family and alone as the Christmas holiday approached, she decided to purchase a watch from the street.

Step One: Desire

What you fervently desire is sure to manifest when you give yourself permission to have it, think about it often and with feeling, consider ways to acquire it, and set in motion the acquisition of it through your intent. Lupe purchased the fake with an abiding hope that one day she would get the real thing.

Step Two: Intent

When you desire something deeply and form an intention to acquire it, you will begin to turn over in your mind ways that you might have the object of your desire. Intent to have something usually triggers strong emotional feelings such as excitement and happiness. You feel motivated to work for it. Although her new watch was a designer knockoff, Lupe wore it with pride. She just knew that someday she would own the real thing. She intended to have it even if she had to work extra shifts. She vowed to work hard to make getting the watch a probability instead of a possibility. She imagined herself as the star of her own movie, wearing it.

Step Three: Belief in Attainment

When desire is coupled with intent and motivation, you begin to believe that you can attain the object you desire. When the fake watch broke, Lupe stopped wearing it. Instead, she kept the watch displayed on the bathroom windowsill in her one-room apartment. She never told herself, “I can't afford a real diamond watch”; instead, she allowed her mind to wrap around the happiness and pride she would feel when she would finally wear the real thing.

Step Four: Positive Attitude

Belief that you can have your desire must be sustained because there surely will be a period between dreaming of having it and the physical manifestation of it in your life. Seldom are manifestations instantaneous. In Lupe's life, several years came and went. Yet she never gave up hope that in the right time and the right way, her watch would arrive. She believed that it was already en route to her, as if she had paid for it and it was simply a matter of waiting until it showed up. She never questioned how or when, but just kept her faith and saved her pennies.

Step Five: Gratitude

Intensify your efforts of deliberately working with the Law of Attraction by feeling and expressing your thankfulness at what you already have. Feel gratitude for the power that is working to bring you the object you fervently desire. In Lupe's case, she became a little sidetracked. Love and marriage came into her life. She and her husband moved into a new, slightly larger place as her husband anticipated taking over his father's jewelry business. Lupe finally put the broken watch away in a dresser drawer. Each day as she walked to work, she spent the time thanking God for her many blessings — her new husband, their deep love for each other, and their small but darling apartment only a few blocks from her work. Though there were many things she and her husband needed, she felt grateful for what they already had. She had a list of needs. The watch remained on her list of wants.

Step Six: Receive

From time to time, Lupe took her broken watch from the drawer to look at it. She didn't buy a new cheap watch or another fake. She trusted that when the time was right, her dream watch would arrive.

On the morning of their second wedding anniversary, her husband gave her a red box. Inside was a diamond-encrusted watch by Cartier. It wasn't one of the newest designs, but it had been in his father's store for several years as if waiting for just the right person to claim it. At first glance, Lupe immediately recognized the watch she had been visualizing since the first time she'd seen it at the movies. Through tears of joy, she told her husband that his gift was perfect, just what she had always wanted.